What is the purpose of zero's cameras?

[Mr. Fancy Pants. Bot.]

Just hopped back into the game after a few years break and went off line to use some of the new operators gadgets and wondered. What exactly is the point of zeros camera? Yeah it's cool that it can pierce breakable walls and potentially shoot people VERY slowly. But it isn't bullet proof so as soon as it goes in it can just get shot and destroyed. Seems pretty useless to me. But maybe i'm just looking at it wrong. Any thoughts? I really like his gun as well so he interested me quite a bit till testing out his gadget.

[Forget about It]

Zero's gadget needs creative setups. I myself struggle with those cam placements. But some general rules I read from various comments are these
1. You can use them for flank watch. shooting them on sites is also a good option but you gotta be careful
2. you can use those cams on sites after the defuser is planted. Zero needs to be alive till that moment
3. In some sites (border, oregon 2nd floor) you can really use those cams to shoot kaids jammers or bandit batteries.

[xxEvildoctorxx]

imo, you can use it a Flankwatcher or use it like a to destroy Anti Breach gadget.

Flankwatch as camera that watches teammate.
Destroy gadgets by using verticality. i.e: use Train(2f) ceiling to breach Piano(3f) by destroying bandit/mute/kaid in Kafe

[Mojo]

If you're shooting people with it,then I don't really know what to tell you. Besides giving tremendous amounts of info-even more than Valkyrie,it can also destroy most defender gadgets.

[Copy & Cat]

Intel and sabotaging gadgets, not kills and harassing defenders

[Igotdild4u]

Pretty much to destroy defender gadgets behind walls and to gather intel. People rarely expect a zero cam to shoot across the room from a drone hole.

[AtomicFinjaMaster]

On top of what everyone else said, theres a couple other things Argus cams can do, if you shoot them above a Mira window, you can actually hit the red canister on them (even if the cam is on the same wall as the window)

You also don't need to shoot them through soft walls, they can sit just as easily on any parts of the environment, letting you spot people on stairs, on site, and more.

[UbiYubble]

Originally posted by Mr. Fancy Pants. Bot.:

Just hopped back into the game after a few years break and went off line to use some of the new operators gadgets and wondered. What exactly is the point of zeros camera? Yeah it's cool that it can pierce breakable walls and potentially shoot people VERY slowly. But it isn't bullet proof so as soon as it goes in it can just get shot and destroyed. Seems pretty useless to me. But maybe i'm just looking at it wrong. Any thoughts? I really like his gun as well so he interested me quite a bit till testing out his gadget.

I think his cams are pretty useful, you just have to pick the right moment to use them! If you fire it into site while an explosion is going off or a firefight is happening, no one will have a clue what you're up to.

[GhastlyGhostJr]

Intel and gadget removal.

[Arash The Great]

The thing is that his argus cams are noisy, noticeable to shoot and you get screen shakes. It's only good for flank watching. Anything else I don't think so

[Mojo]

Originally posted by Arash The Great:

The thing is that his argus cams are noisy, noticeable to shoot and you get screen shakes. It's only good for flank watching. Anything else I don't think so

You do know,that muffling noisy gadgets with other sounds is a thing in this game,right?